Pennsylvania Court Weighs a Driver’s Duty to Report an Accident

Readers, we hope you are never involved in the following gory factual scenario.

But let’s assume you are driving one day and you accidentally run over a bicyclist who has fallen on the road. Can you be criminally charged for failing to report the incident even if it’s not clear the bicyclist was still alive when you struck him?

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